Book
Aleksandr Efimov, Pogibenko Tamara
Materials of the Russian-Vietnamese Linguistic Expedition. The Ma Language
Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Москва, 2020, 504 p.
This book is devoted to the description of the Ma language, which belongs to Bahnaric group of Mon-Khmer branch of the Austroasiatic language family. The work is based on the materials collected during the joint Russian-Vietnamese fieldwork session in 1981. The book comprises a detailed description of phonological and grammatical system of the Ma language. It also includes the field materials, i.e. diagnostic grammar questionnaires numbering 1366 sentences. Each Ma sentence is translated into Russian and Vietnamese and provided with Russian and Vietnamese glossing.
The previous issues based on materials of the joint Russian-Vietnamese fieldwork sessions are: Laha language. Moscow, 1986; Muong language. Moscow, 1987; Ksingmul language. Moscow, 1990; Ruc language. Moscow, 2001.